TGA Managing Editor Emma Backe interviewed Andrew Alan Johnson, an anthropologist who also serves as the Senior Historian for Sid Meier’s Civilization VII. They talk about working in the gaming industry, infusing anthropology into narrative gaming mechanics, and what it means to do “weird anthropology.”
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